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US says it has no commitment to 100,000 (!!) Syrian SDF it trained
[Jpost] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed in an interview with CNBC that the US "completely fulfilled" its obligations to the SDF and disagreed with suggested the US had abandoned its partners.
We trained, armed, and funded a respectably sized army, of which only 10% were killed in action against an enemy they would have fought anyway?
US officials are seeking to avoid claims that they had any commitment to eastern Syria after US President Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
suddenly withdrew forces on October 6, an ordered that continued Monday as American vehicles exited to Iraq. This comes despite the fact that as recently as June the Pentagon claimed to have trained 100,000 "partner forces" among the Syrian Democratic Forces and sought to train up to 110,000 by this month.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-10-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=553351